32 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1877. 



mentthe absence of such names as John A. Warder, Patrick Barry, 

 Charlks Downing, John J. Thomas, and, — clarum et venerahile 

 nomen I — Marshall, P. Wilder. Honesty is an indispensable qualifi- 

 cation for a just judge, but should not capacity also be deemed essential?" 

 The Editor of that invaluable Horticultural Magazine the Gardener^s 

 Monthly, — invaluable because of its possession of him as Editor, — feels 

 sorely aggrieved by those remarks, and takes exception to their general 

 tenor in language which is quoted in full, that he may receive the hear- 

 ng to which he is, in every respect, entitled : " It is a remarkable com- 

 ' mentary on this paragraph that the utter ignoring of Horticulture and 

 ' Agriculture in the programme of judges, and through which no judges 

 ' for these departments were appointed, was the work of a New England 

 ' Man. The judges who did serve, did so without any recognition from 

 ' the Centennial Commission, and without any arrangement for pay, 

 ' while the regular judges had both. They worked steadily at this for 

 ' from two to four days a week, for six months, and then were told that 

 ' as there was no provision made for Pomological judges, their services 

 ' were expected to be gratuitous. If Dov/ning, "Warder, Thomas, Barry, 

 ' Wilder, or that other gentleman, Clarum E. V. Nomen, of whom we 

 ' never heard before, were willing to undertake this long and weary ser- 

 ' vice, out of pure desire as pomologists, to see some justice done to the 

 ' great pomological interests, such knowledge of their disposition never 

 ' came to Philadelphia; nor we do not know that either Brutus or Cassius 

 ' ever did work like this ; but if Massachusetts have any of these noble 

 ' Romans in these days, she is quite welcome to send some of them along 

 ' next time." 



" It is also but fair to state that while the pomological judges from . 

 ' other parts of the country, who were called in during the heavy week 

 ' to assist, hy the Commission, were paid SIOO.OO for the week's work, 

 ' and which they earned much better than some of the regular judges in 

 ' other departments, even this trifle was refused to the Philadelphia 

 ' judges for six months' work," &c., &c. 



To all which the replication of your Secretary, re-atiirming his orig- 

 inal position, is that the answer of Mr. Meehan concedes everything es- 

 sential. Whatsoever the sins of commission or omission whereof a " New 

 England Man" (can tliat intend the " Gentleman in Politics ?") may have 

 been guilty, the writer knows not nor cares. Massachusetts, Ohio, and 

 New York constitute a larger territory and a more comprehensive desig- 

 nation. Sectionalism is the last fault that your Secretary ever supposed 

 would be ascribed to him. 



That the judges who served were not "recognized" by the Centennial 

 Commission; that they were not paid while others, of no more conse- 



